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

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.