The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.