The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

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

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.