 Good men must not obey the laws too well. |
| Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. |
| The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. |
| Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. |
| The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. |
| The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. |
| Nature hates calculators. |
| A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. |
| Pictures must not be too picturesque. |
| Every man I meet is in some way my superior. |
| Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. |
| Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. |
| We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. |
| Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. |
| We are wiser than we know. |
| Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. |
| It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' |
| There is creative reading as well as creative writing. |
| No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. |
| The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. |
