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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.