The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.