Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.