Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

What we call results are beginnings.