It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

Everything in this world depends upon will.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.