If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world's inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.