I Can Expect No Sympathy Or Help

Poetry And Imagination Begin Life. A Child Will Fall On Its Knees On The Gravel Walk At The Sight Of A Pink Hawthorn In Full Flower, When It Is By Itself, To Praise God For It.

Let People Who Have To Observe Sickness And Death Look Back And Try To Register In Their Observation The Appearances Which Have Preceded Relapse, Attack Or Death, And Not Assert That There Were None, Or That There Were Not The Right Ones. A Want Of The Habit Of Observing Conditions And An Inveterate Habit Of Taking Averages Are Each Of Them Often Equally Misleading.

Volumes Are Now Written And Spoken Upon The Effect Of The Mind Upon The Body. Much Of It Is True. But I Wish A Little More Was Thought Of The Effect Of The Body On The Mind.

Never Give Nor Take An Excuse.

The World Is Put Back By The Death Of Every One Who Has To Sacrifice The Development Of His Or Her Peculiar Gifts To Conventionality.