Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.