There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

No institution will be better than the institutor.