The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.