Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.
When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties
What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.