No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

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.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.