Thought makes everything fit for use.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?