Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Time has only a relative existence.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.