The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.