If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.