To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.