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

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

Look out! Behind you!

In imitation is a bit suicide.