He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

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.

If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.