The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.