All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.