America is a young country with an old mentality.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.