Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

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.

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.