“It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quit...”

“There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscienceThese testimonies of a good conscie...”

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

“The thing I fear most is fear.”

“We need but little learning to live happily.”

“To live in peace and righteousness is to be restored to Gods dominion”

“Stone, steel, dominions pass,Faith too, no wonder;So leave alone the grassThat I am under.”

“The thing with do-overs its that they dont exist. Second chances are just another chance to mess up.”

“What magic was this, brewed from equal parts of age-old memories and total oblivion. One could have believed that the last war these people had fought had left only happy memories, had carried in i...”

“It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.”

“Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.”

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural wish to make them sinless a...”

“Lie down beside these watersThat bubble from the spring;Hear in the desert silenceThe desert sparrow sing;Draw from the shapeless momentSuch pattern as you can;And cleave henceforth to Beauty;Expec...”

“The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.”