What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.