Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere.... We should wash ourselves clean of such news. Of what consequence, though our planet explode, if there is no character involved in the explosion? In health we have not the least curiosity about such events. We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.

Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.

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