Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

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

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down