Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.