“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
