Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as unity and worshipped as God. To this day, his attitude towards it has never changed, though science can no longer give to force a name.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.