There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

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

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.