There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.