Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.