Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.