That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

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.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

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.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.