It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.