A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.

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

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.