What you think is the summit is only a step up

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

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.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.