For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

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.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.