The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

The language of the street is always strong.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

The years teach much which the days never know.