Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

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

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.