Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.