Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.