"Nature suffers nothing to remain in her..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You cannot do a kindness too soon.”

“The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.”

“The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity”

“Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.”

“When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”

“The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral.”

“People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched her, are wrong.”

“I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.”

“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.”