A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

An empire is an immense egotism.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.