I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

The seasons run with swift feet.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.