The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

Self-denial is the best riches.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

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.

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.