“The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation”

“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.”

“Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses”

“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing”

“The day is done, and the darkness, falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward, from an eagle in his flight”

“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide”