American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

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.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread