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.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

We see only what we know.

The solution of every problem is another problem