“Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge”

“The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead”

“Small projects need much more help than great ones”

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable”

“If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven.”

“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes”