Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.