The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.