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.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.