No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.