The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.