The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.