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.

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.