So far as hypotheses are concerned let no one expect anything certain from astronomy which cannot furnish it lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Americans will listen but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time which gives him leisure to contrive and furnishes as ability to execute military plans.

Those little nimble musicians of the air that warble forth their curious ditties with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory friends you can trust love of learning and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes and furnished too.