Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.

He was the perfectly flawed man.

> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.

If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.