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

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.