Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time..

Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole..

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can..

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe..

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce..

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer..

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long..

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local a….

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with….

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep..

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns..

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech..

Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons; we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain..

The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person..

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine..

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want….

Only poetry inspires poetry..

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is lik….

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena..

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself..