Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.