When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.
Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.
The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible.
The Central American isthmus is a region of great contrasts, but also of heartening unison. Millions of men and women share dreams of freedom and progress.
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
