All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.