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.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!