In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship