O earth what changes hast thou seen!

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

What ever disunites man from God also disunites man from man.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance or the help of others, it is in yourself alone.

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to be discovered, there is only error to be exposed.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

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