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.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.