Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

Thoughts rule the world.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.