Devoted from my earliest youth to the study of nature, feeling with enthusiasm the wild beauties of a country guarded by mountains and shaded by ancient forests, I experienced in my travels, enjoyments which have amply compensated for the privations inseparable from a laborious and often agitated life.

von Humboldt (seeing a newspaper containing slanderous falsehoods against Jefferson on the President's desk) : Why do you not have the fellow hung who dares to…

One of the noblest characteristics which distinguish modern civilization from that of remoter times is, that it has enlarged the mass of our conceptions, rende…

The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

Here's to the day when it is May And care as light as a feather, When your little shoes and my big boots Go tramping over the heather.

I hied me off to Arcady- The month it was the month of May, And all along the pleasant way, The morning birds were mad with glee, And all the flowers sprang up…

I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road . . . Well, I can't even believe this is work.