I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
My weapon is literature
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
