No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.