I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.