There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.