Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.