The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.