Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.
Complete self-devotion is woman's part.
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.