I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.