Adult males are what their moms designed them.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

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.

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.