You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.