Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.