Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.