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The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
If we wish for mercy ourselves, we must show mercy to all dumb animals.
Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.
After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.
Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise
Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.
Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.
Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
If God exists He must be manifest somehow in matter, and His ways are what science is discovering.
Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.
I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.
No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.