The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

The best part of health is fine disposition

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.