One spares old people just as one spares children.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.