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

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.