There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?