For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

States are great engines moving slowly.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)