But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.