Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

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.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.