It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

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.

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.