The finest poetry was first experience.

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

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.