Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?