Humility is the secret of the wise.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.