I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.