Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

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

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.