There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

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