Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

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

Fate is unpenetrated causes.

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.