In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.