All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.