The health of the eye demands a horizon.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an