We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.