Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.