Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of a wildness so wild and strange and inexhaustible as Nature can never show him.

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

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.