Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Work first, and then rest.

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

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.

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