The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Life is a series of surprises.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.