No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.