The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.