The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.