I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher.