George Washington Cable quotes:

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.