The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.