We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.