Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.