Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.