Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for