The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.