And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.