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.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

No institution will be better than the institutor.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.