No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

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.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.