History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.