Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

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.

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.