The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life.

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