A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

Ideas control the world.