Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.