I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.