Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

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

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.