Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

The whole universe is but a huge Symbol of god".

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.

There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'