Men get the harness on so fast, that they can never shake it off, unless they guard against this danger from the very first.

In Chicago, how many men live who never find time to see the prairies, or learn anything unconnected with the business of the day, or about the country they are living in! So this captain, a man of strong sense and good eyesight, rarely found time to go off the track or look about him on it.

He lamented, too, that there had been no call which, induced him to develop his powers of expression, so that he might communicate what he had seen for the enjoyment or instruction of others.
This is a common fault among the active men, the truly living, who could tell what life is.

It should not be so.

Literature should not be left to the mere literati,--eloquence to the mere orator; every Caesar should be able to write his own commentary.