Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.
Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.