“If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.”

“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.”

“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ”

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”

“In inquiries respecting the laws of the world and the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest.”

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”

“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.”