I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
Rome. . . seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.
God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.