Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.