I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.