“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. ”

“What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!”

“All of nature is a battlefield”

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

“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further”

“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children”