Occupation: Author Birth: December 6, 1803 Death: April 8, 1885
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that ar….
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost..
What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty re….
The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political ar….
I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master..
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive….
The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of ov….
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth..
When things come to the worse, they generally mend..