Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.