The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

A man can be a hero in any profession

All truths wait in all things.