When A Man Meets His Make, Society

The American Who Has Been Confined, In His Own Country, To The Sight Of Buildings Designed After Foreign Models, Is Surprised On Entering York Minster Or St. Peter's At Rome, By The Feeling That These Structures Are Imitations Also,--faint Copies Of An Invisible Archetype.

In The Morning A Man Walks With His Whole Body; In The Evening, Only With His Legs. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals And Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek Architecture Is The Perfect Flowering Of Geometry.

There Are Only Ten Minutes In The Life Of A Pear When It Is Perfect To Eat.

Love Is The Bright Foreigner, The Foreign Self.

The Life Of Labor Does Not Make Men, But Drudges.