The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.