The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of gen...
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast.
