There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid in full.

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways