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

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

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

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.