The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

Spring-an experience in immortality.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.