Morality Is A Private And Costly Luxury.

After Gibbs, One The Most Distinguished [american Scientists] Was Langley, Of The Smithsonian. ... He Had The Physicist's Heinous Fault Of Professing To Know Nothing Between Flashes Of Intense Perception. ... Rigidly Denying Himself The Amusement Of Philosophy, Which Consists Chiefly In Suggesting Unintelligible Answers To Insoluble Problems, And Liked To Wander Past Them In A Courteous Temper, Even Bowing To Them Distantly As Though Recognizing Their Existence, While Doubting Their Respectibility.

Susceptibility To The Highest Forces Is The Highest Genius.

The Chief Wonder Of Education Is That It Does Not Ruin Everybody Concerned In It, Teachers And Taught.

Every One Must Bear His Own Universe, And Most Persons Are Moderately Interested In Learning How Their Neighbors Have Managed To Carry Theirs.

I Have Written Too Much History To Have Faith In It; And If Anyone Thinks I'm Wrong, I Am Inclined To Agree With Him.