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

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Flowers are the earth laughing.

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend