Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.