Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.