While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I have great faith in a seed.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.