Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.