Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.