If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.