We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.

I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.