For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

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

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!'.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

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

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.