“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

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

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”

“...it appears to me, the doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelyhood pursue.”