We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.