We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.