You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.