Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.