No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.