Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

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.

One must be something, in order to do something.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.