What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.