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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Where the mind is tinctured with philosophy, there is no place for grief, anxiety, or superfluous vexations.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest.

Sitting down on a block of granite, it was delightful to watch the various insects and birds as they flew past.

Language is our largest common medium, and leads on into literature, which is but preserved speech.

a man who is always living in the midst of these studies and labours does not perceive when old age creeps upon him

if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing can be pleasanter than an old age of leisure

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Entomology extends the limits of being in a new direction, so that I walk in nature with a sense of greater space and freedom.

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children.

Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.

Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.