Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.