Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.