The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Great thoughts ensure musical expression.

The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.