Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write, who however wrote much and well but too often by rote.

What you see but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Is it not rather what we expect in men that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.

I'm an optimist.

When the voices of children are heard on the green / And laughing is heard on the hill / My heart is at rest within my breast / And everything else is still.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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