We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

God has delegated himself to a million deputies.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.