Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

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

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

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.