You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.