Character is that which can do without success.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.