Canadian "jurist, homespun philospher, author".
"He created Sam Slick, a resourceful Yankee clock peddler and cracker-barrel philosopher of human nature who appears in "The Clockmaker," 1836-40."
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."
"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."
"When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry."