Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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