In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.