God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.