Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.