Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

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!'.