Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?