Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.