Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit

All high beauty has a moral element in it.