The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

My body and my will are one.

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.