Lord of
Lord of
knows
To measure is to know.
believe long atheism
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.
math science numbers
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
measurement measure-for-measure can-not
If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.
science air flying
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
issues few-words inquiry
Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.
wisdom mother indifference
Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.
wise wisdom maturity
A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.
happiness guilt inward
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.
love hate silly
You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.
friendship blood ties
Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.
love friendship heart
In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.
friendship fortune continuity
The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.
fashion flower men
Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.