It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

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.