A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
All writing comes by the grace of God.
We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
I am become a transparent eyeball.
[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.