To be awake is to be alive.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.