Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time.

I accept the universe!

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.