Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.