The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

A fact may blossom into a truth.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .