Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food