The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.