A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.