The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.