Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer.

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

You will not be a chip the richer.

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.