Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

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.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.