We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.