Do your work, but do your thing.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.