Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Only the heart without a stain knows ease.