A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.