The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we. The most distinct and beautiful statements of any truth must take at last the mathematical form. We might so simplify the rules of moral philosophy, as well as of arithmetic, that one formula would express them both.

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.