Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.