Imitation is suicide.
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
This time, like all time, is a very good one but if we know what to do with it.
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.