Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space, the entire race may migrate from the earth, to settle some vacant and more western planet.... It took but little art, a simple application of natural laws, a canoe, a paddle, and a sail of matting, to people the isles of the Pacific, and a little more will people the shining isles of space. Do we not see in the firmament the lights carried along the shore by night, as Columbus did? Let us not despair or mutiny.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.