When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.