The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.