He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.