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

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.