To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
From Georg C. Lichtenberg
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
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