This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.