As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.