He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.