A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

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.

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

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.