Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

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

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.

Sit at the stream's edge and watch life flowing past: this one sign of the passing world is enough for us.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.