The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.