You don't know your testament when you see it.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

Hate can pardon more than love.

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.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.