The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

There is no right government except good government.