The youthful architect's mind was confused by the multitude of suggestions which were crowding in upon it, and which he had not yet had time or developed mature strength sufficient to reduce to order.

The young American of any freshness of intellect is stimulated to dangerous excess by the conditions of life into which he is born.

There is a double proportion of oxygen in the New World air.

The chemists have not found it out yet, but human brains and breathing-organs have long since made the discovery.
Clement knew that his hasty entanglement had limited his possibilities of happiness in one direction, and he felt that there was a certain grandeur in the recompense of working out his defeated instincts through the ambitious medium of his noble art.

Had not Pharaohs chosen it to proclaim their longings for immortality, Caesars their passion for pomp and luxury, and priests to symbolize their conceptions of the heavenly mansions?
His dreams were on a grand scale; such, after all, are the best possessions of youth.