Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.