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

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.

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.

All the thoughts/images in our minds, and all the emotions connected with our thoughts will sooner or later manifest as our reality.

Macho does not prove mucho.

If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles.

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.