We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.