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

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest; the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.