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

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.