To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

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.

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

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.