Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.