We don’t count a man’s years, until he has nothing else to count.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
