Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

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.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

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

Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.