Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The hero is he who is immovably centered.

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Great men are sincere.