A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.