Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

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

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.