It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

Truth is always paradoxical.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

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