We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more.

The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.

The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.

I stand in awe of my body.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.