Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.