Science is the topography of ignorance.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

The best servant does his work unseen.