Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.