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

Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

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

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.