“The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.”
“There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.”
“I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.”
“Without experiment I am nothing.”
“I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too.”
“Who knows, perhaps one day people will listen more to the little piece of God, which we call a conscience, than to their own desires!”
“All people are born equal, all people die in the end and keep nothing of their worldly status.”
“Go outside, to the country, enjoy the sun and all nature has to offer.”
“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
“At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.”
“Paper has more patience than people.”
“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance.”
“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready.”
“Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet.”
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”