I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.