To See Distinctly The Machinery--the Wheels And

Democracy Is A Very Admirable Form Of Government - For Dogs

Happiness Is Not To Be Found In Knowledge, But In The Acquisition Of Knowledge

How Many Good Books Suffer Neglect Through The Inefficiency Of Their Beginnings!

As A Poet And As A Mathematician, He Would Reason Well; As A Mere Mathematician, He Could Not Have Reasoned At All.

Were The Succession Of Stars Endless, Then The Background Of The Sky Would Present Us An Uniform Luminosity, Like That Displayed By The Galaxy-since There Could Be Absolutely No Point, In All That Background, At Which Would Not Exist A Star. The Only Mode, Therefore, In Which, Under Such A State Of Affairs, We Could Comprehend The Voids Which Our Telescopes Find In Innumerable Directions, Would Be By Supposing The Distance Of The Invisible Background So Immense That No Ray From It Has Yet Been Able To Reach Us At All.