None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.

In their daily life, all are braver than they know.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.