It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.