It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.