We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.