Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.