If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past