The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

A man is a god in ruins.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.