Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.