When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.