Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.