Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

God did not create you for sorrow and sickness

When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?

I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.