Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

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

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

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