See! This our fathers did for us.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.