He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.