Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.