I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.