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.

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Your religion is where your love is.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.