“Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.”
“To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.”
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
“There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.”
“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”
“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.”
“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but— I hope — into a better shape.”
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
“I wear the chain I forged in life.”
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
“Staying as I am, one foot in one country and the other in another, I find my condition very happy, in that it is free.”
“You know that all my physics is nothing else than geometry.”
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it.”
“No more useful inquiry can be proposed than that which seeks to determine the nature and the scope of human knowledge.”
“The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.”
“So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes.”