There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

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.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on thevery spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,--how much anxiety and danger would vanish.