Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Justice is the truth in action.

Never cut what you can untie.

The soul paints itself in our machines.