A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

A day is a miniature eternity.