Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

Labor is God's education.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.