The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.