With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, "This is and no mistake.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

The greater number of men are merely corporals.

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.