The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.