The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

The old echoes are long in dying.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.