Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

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

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.