We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

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.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.