Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.