As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

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

Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man's Land.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to 'glorify God and enjoy him forever.'

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.