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

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

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

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.