Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.