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

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.