It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.