In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

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.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.