Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?