Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.

Study nature as the countenance of God.