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

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.