We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

The walking of Man is falling forwards.