Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.