The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.