Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.