Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The dice of God are always loaded.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.