He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.