“Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature
“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow
“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin
“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculable
“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know