Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

He who thinks little errs much.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.