He that will not work according to his faculty, let him peris!) according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

He that can work is a born king of something.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Clear undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows, through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Light; or, failing that, lightning: the world can take its choice.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic act, of which the best logics can but babble on the surface.