The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an