The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.