Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.