The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

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

What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.