So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

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

That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.