Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

No science ever defends its first principles.

Love is the cause of unity in all things.

Happiness is self-connectedness.