What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.