[The city] has always been the fireplace of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

The most useful is the greatest.

Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are' but 'You are as good as I am.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Humanity is the sin of God.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. – The world would foment with revolution.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope, – the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and “only infallible rule” of the nest.

Nature is God’s Old Testament.

Nature is man’s religious book, with lessons for every day.