With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

God'll send the bill to you.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.