There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.