People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

To make something you have to be something.

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.