"This plant represents what's happening inside of you. The world, like the soil, is cold and dark—layered with a history of destruction and death. You were planted in this world to rise above it. Do yo..."
- Seth Adam Smith
"Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?"
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
- Adam Smith
"Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them."
"The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, n..."
"I didn't just see a child in my dreams—I felt it in my heart."
"Where does your soul walk?"
"No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country. After what are called the fine arts, and the liberal professions, however, there is perhaps ..."
"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exe..."
"All churches are an echo of this—the Cathedral of Nature."