Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.