Do well and right and let the world sink.
Step by step the ladder is ascended.
If a donkey bray at you, don’t bray at him.
But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism.
If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!
He hath no leisure who useth it not.
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
Stay a little and news will find you.
Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.
Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee.
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
Critics are like brushers of noblemen’s clothes.
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
Was ever grief like mine?
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
A good heart cannot lye.
Never was a miser a brave soul.
The market is the best garden.
Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.