It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.