Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

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.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.