Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.