"The wheels and springs of man are..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The borrower runs in his own debt.”

“All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.”

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.”

“The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.”

“Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.”

“O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.”

“The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.”

“What is well planted will not be uprooted.”

“Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.”