It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.