How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.