We can never achieve and succeed without first making excellence second nature.

The world is your oyster...YOU determine the value of the pearl!

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the doors to a deeper level of existence.

I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

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

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.