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

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

The eye is the best of artists.