We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.