Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Faith is hidden household capital.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.