I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.