It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.