Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.