Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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