The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.