The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.