Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability of a new finding has been fully confirmed, people say - OK, it may be true but it has no real significance. At last, when even the significance of the finding is obvious to everybody, people say - Well, it might have some significance, but the idea is not new.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

We cannot fail in following nature.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself