Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

I think no virtue goes with size.