Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens.

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

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

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.