When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.