Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.