Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.