There Is No Dunce Like A Mature

To Delight In War Is A Merit In The Soldier, A Dangerous Quality In The Captain, And A Positive Crime In The Statesman.

For A Man Who Has Done His Natural Duty, Death Is As Natural As Sleep.

Columbus Found A World, And Had No Chart Save One That Faith Deciphered In The Skies.

It Is A Pleasant Surprise To Him (the Pure Mathematician) And An Added Problem If He Finds That The Arts Can Use His Calculations, Or That The Senses Can Verify Them, Much As If A Composer Found That Sailors Could Heave Better When Singing His Songs.

There Is No Greater Stupidity Or Meanness Than To Take Uniformity For An Ideal.