The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.