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

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

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

Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.