The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.