That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.