Imitation Cannot Go Above Its Model.

We Cannot Overstate Our Debt To The Past, But The Moment Has The Supreme Claim.

The Heroic Cannot Be The Common, Nor The Common The Heroic.

We Go To Europe To Be Americanized.

Before A Leaf-bud Has Burst, Its Whole Life Acts; In The Full-blown Flower There Is No More; In The Leafless Root There Is No Less.

Presently We Pass To Some Other Object Which Rounds Itself Into A Whole As Did The First; For Example, A Well-laid Garden; And Nothing Seems Worth Doing But The Laying~out Of Gardens.