We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.