Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

Every natural action is graceful.

It is one soul which animates all men.

In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.