Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.