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| What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. | | Books; Education | |
| What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science | | Science | |
| What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. | | Uncategorized | |
| When an oak-tree is felled the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. | | Uncategorized | |
| When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. | | Uncategorized | |
| When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze | | Uncategorized | |
| When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. | | Uncategorized | |
| Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. | | Uncategorized | |
| Wonder is the basis of worship | | Wonder | |
| Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front? | | Uncategorized | |
| Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen | | Uncategorized | |
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| Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done | | Work | |
| Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. | | Writing | |
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| Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. | | Youth | |
| [As one highway engineer put it,] We were going by the book, but the damned mountain couldn't read. ... Every noble work is at first impossible. | | Uncategorized | |
