Affectation is the product of falsehood.

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.