He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

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.

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

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.