Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.