Men see what they are most afraid of.
If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.
Lost time is never found again.
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.
Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c. , &c. , had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually retard its progress.
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.