Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.