Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.