How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

Calmness is always godlike.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

Real action is in silent moments.