What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

To create something you must be something.