I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.