Look out! Behind you!

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.