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

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

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.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.