We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

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

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.