"They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything."

"Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!"

"There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind."

"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."

"For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort."

"The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretense but an idea."

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead."

"People will forget what you did, people will forget what you said, but they won't forget the way you made them feel."

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."

"The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."

"How far your eyes may pierce, i cannot tell; striving to better, oft we mar what's well."