The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow