There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.