Truth was always but the daughter of time.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.