No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.
For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
The man without a navel still lives in me.
A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.