The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
While there is life there is hope.
While his heart still beats, while his flesh still moves, I cannot accept that a being endowed with will-power can give in to despair.
When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
When science has sent forth her fiat – it is only to hear and obey.
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.