The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.