I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect, but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to which my father's letter of credit entitled me. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France, whose name was a common one, John Smith, took particular charge of me, removed me to Morristown, N. J., and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies who kept a boarding - house. To their skilful and untiring ministrations I may safely say I owe the prolongation of my life.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.