America is the only place where man is full-grown!

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.