We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know