The Mercantile Business Did Not Suit Me

To Have Been Torn From The Study Would Have Been As Death; My Time Was Entirely Occupied With Art.

I Wish I Had Eight Pairs Of Hands, And Another Body To Shoot The Specimens.

On Landing At New York I Caught The Yellow Fever By Walking To The Bank At Greenwich To Get The Money To Which My Father's Letter Of Credit Entitled Me. The Kind Man Who Commanded The Ship That Brought Me From France, Whose Name Was A Common One, John Smith, Took Particular Charge Of Me, Removed Me To Morristown, N. J., And Placed Me Under The Care Of Two Quaker Ladies Who Kept A Boarding - House. To Their Skilful And Untiring Ministrations I May Safely Say I Owe The Prolongation Of My Life.

When The Bird And The Book Disagree, Believe The Bird.

Hunting, Fishing, Drawing, And Music Occupied My Every Moment. Cares I Knew Not, And Cared Naught About Them.