Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.