The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

The years teach much which the days never know.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.