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.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.