Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

You are your choices.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

All art is but imitation of nature.