I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.