Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.