Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The hero is suffered to be himself.
The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.