"In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things."

"Among flower vases, the ware that is given the highest rank is old Iga, from the sixteenth and seventeenth …"

"Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and s…"

"The span we live is small—small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as even the greatest …"

"If there are no sandpits from which it can be dug, then we must sift it out from river beds or from gravel …"

"But there is a nature which dwells inside also. Just enjoy that also. There are beautiful hills, beautiful …"

"A trial in Westminster Hall, in July last, at a large expence, was the consequence; when, solely by not des…"