Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

The best servant does his work unseen.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.