The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

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

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.