The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.