Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.