Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thought rules the world.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is,-Let there be truth between us two forevermore.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Every man's task is his life-preserver.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.