Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.