In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

I am become a transparent eyeball.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.