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.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and tohunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.