The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.