Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.