I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.
Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.
When one clings to the myth of superiority, one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.
Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.
Pray till you pray.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Old houses mended
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity.
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.
A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.