The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.