That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

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.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.