Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.