It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

In every man there is something of all men.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.