My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.

Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.