As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.