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.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

A library implies an act of faith.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.