Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.
We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.