As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.
There is always something new out of Africa.
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.