A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

True love is the parent of humility.

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.