It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

The most useful is the greatest.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

Love is the piety of the affections.