For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

Science finds it methods.

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.