“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.”

“Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.”

“Wonder is the basis of worship.”

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.”