“No, indeed. My gluttony is all for knowledge.”
“Wouldst be content to dine with me day by day on the liberal air?”
“Ay, assuredly, if I could come by it to thy greatness of vision.”
“Wise Sempronius! How, then, am I great to him?”
“How but in all that he lacks—wisdom, precognition—great in everything.”
“Save in my midriff—as I were a King, great in all possessions but that of a Kingdom.”
“The universe is your scroll: the water is your mirror: the wind is your subject.”
“Yes, I am full of that subject.”
“Your mind can traverse empty space.”
“And does every day, I assure you, thinking on my stomach.”