Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.