I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.