To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

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.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.