Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.