Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

Nature is God's Old Testament.