The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

A system-grinder hates the truth.