The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

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

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.