Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.