Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.