The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

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

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.