Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.