The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.