The world remains ever the same.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

Collectors are happy people.