If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

It is your human environment that makes climate

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.