Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.