He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.