There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.