The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Winter is the night of vegetation.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.