If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

States, as great engines, move slowly.