If ever Confederation fails, it will not be because Quebec - the political voice of French Canada - has separated from it. It will be because the way to keep Quebec in it has not been found.
Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.
We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well.
Let your requests be made known unto God.
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it.
People change and forget to tell each other.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
It takes vision and courage to create- it takes faith and courage to prove.
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker, old pard! Just draw on your grit, it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.