See! This our fathers did for us.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.