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

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.