The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

There is no God dare wrong a worm.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.