If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

Those who work much do not work hard.

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.