“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization”

“The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead”

“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”

“The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much”

“Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature”

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter, often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter, in the eye”