Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.

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

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.