He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.