As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.