Religion to be permanently influential must be intelligent. [ E. L. Magoon ]

Catastrophes dispose all strong and intelligent men to philosophize. [ Balzac ]

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. [ Emerson ]

Stupid people move like lay-figures, while every joint of an intelligent man is eloquent. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Intelligent people make many blunders, because they never believe the world as stupid as it is. [ Chamfort ]

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings. [ Kant ]

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world. [ G. W. Curtis ]

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought. [ Theodore T. Munger ]

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere. [ Bovee ]

All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]