In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.