Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

God will not make himself manifest to cowards

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.