Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Jean RostandIn order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean RostandIf a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.
Jean Rostand