Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.