It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth.