There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

Man is but the place where I stand.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.