The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Only law can give us freedom.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.