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

All writing comes by the grace of God.

The world we live in is but thickened light.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.