The eye is the best of artists.

To be gret is to be misunderstood.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.