Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

Lets take full advantage of this discovery