Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!