An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.