Like sex in Victorian England the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
In rivers the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the...
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful more simple or...
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more...
Life well spent is long.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Where there is shouting there is no true knowledge.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his...
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of...
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it...
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what...
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary...
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when...
Our life is made by the death of others.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep so a life well spent brings happy...
While I thought that I was learning how to live I have been learning how to...
Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
I love those who can smile in trouble who can gather strength from distress...
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Art is never finished only abandoned.
