Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

One must be an inventor to read well.

We can only obey our own polarity.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.