We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues. |
We do what we must, and call it by the best names. |
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. |
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history |
We feed on genius; great men exist that there might be greater men. |
We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children, that makes the heart too big for the body |
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause |
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. |
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns. |
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. |
We go to Europe to be Americanized. |
We have more than we use. |
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope |
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves... |
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake |