Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.