Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.