As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.