Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

A little praise goes a great ways.

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.