Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.

In order to die, you must first have lived.

Those who work much do not work hard.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.