A man only learns in two ways one by reading and the other by association with smarter people.

We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow worm.

If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

However distant my people may be I draw them to me just as we pull a bird to us with a string tied to its foot I love devotion.

A man may die nations may rise and fall but an idea lives on.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

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