I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.