It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

The habit of talking the talk has distracted many people from walking the walk.

There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Adults are only obsolete children.

Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.

For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.

Dream big, talk big, and turn your faith loose!

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.