Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

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.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.