In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war.

I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul’s aspiration toward the Infinite.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.