We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.