Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Artifice is the work of mere man, in the imbecility of his mimic understanding.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

Seeking is not always the way to find.