A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Keep passing the open windows.

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

I won't lie I still keep searching why people... I'm very curious what does it make them so safety to lie?

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.

I wish they made fajita cologne, because that stuff smells good. What's that you're wearing? That's sizzlin'!

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.