The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Nature is always behind the age

Credit is a young man's capital.

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.