Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.