A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

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

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

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 bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

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

To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.