Imitation is suicide.
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.