There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now worshiped. Do not the quacks even direct small doses for children, larger for adults, and larger still for oxen and horses? Let us remember that we are to prescribe for the globe itself.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.