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.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.