I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.