There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for. - Washington Irving

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.

To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.