If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.