Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

God: personified incomprehensibility.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.