What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.