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

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.