Wherever you have planted a seed, I am prepared to expect wonders.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.