Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

You cannot make a cheap palace.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.