Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity; for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.