A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.