If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.