The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.