True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.