"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"

"You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege …"

"When Hector heard that challenge he rejoiced and right in the no man's land along his lines he strode, gripping his s…"

"The memory of one who is taken into the heart of a little child is kept forever green."

"The ability to imagine relations is one of the most indispensable conditions of all precise thinking. No subject can …"

"Man does not dwell at the centre of things, but is the denizen of an obscure and tiny speck of cosmical matter quite …"

"In a very deep sense all human science is but the increment of the power of the eye, and all human art is the increme…"

"The United States—bounded on the north by the Aurora Borealis, on the south by the precession of the equinoxes, on th…"

"I wanted to hear Sappho’s laughter and the speech of her stringed shell.What I heard was whiskered mumble- ment of gr…"

"Dapple-throned Aphrodite, eternal daughter of God, snare-knitter!"