I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.