If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.