Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.

Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.

Patience is nobler motion than any deed.