All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.