If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.