“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder
“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
“A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes
“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach
“Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays