Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

We live ruins amid ruins.

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.