“Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”

“If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.”

“Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.”

“If use becomes abuse, we should intervene at once, for if abuse becomes habit, then there is no remedy.”

“To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.”

“There's not a thing on earth that I can name,
So foolish, and so false, as common fame.”

“It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.”

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. ”

“Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge… Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? …there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.”

“Landscape - the external surface of the earth beneath the atmosphere… is merely an outward manifestation of most of the factors at work in the area.”