Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.
There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.
I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous.
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. . . . Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. . . . Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.