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.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

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.