“There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.”

“Life is an experiment. The more experiments the better”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.”

“Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.”

“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”