Time is the greatest innovator.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.