Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.