The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.