“He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.”

For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

Some call it evolution, And others call it God.

Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

The willing horse is always overworked.

We are optimists, until we are not.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.