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.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.