“New York is a sucked orange.”

“Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.”