The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.