By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.