It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.