I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.