Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

I unsettle all things.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity