Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.