If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.