It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?