Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.