It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.