It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

A goal is a dream taken seriously.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

I would stand upon facts.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.