The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.