The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.
Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.
Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.