Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

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