I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.

A man is known by the books he reads.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

One must be an inventor to read well.

Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.