Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.