If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.