There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

The less government we have the better.