Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Nature's first green is gold.

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.