The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.