The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

I want to meet my God awake.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.