God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

Whatever limits us we call fate.

When it's dark enough men see stars.