“I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state”

“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life”

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk”

“How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!”

“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have”

“Remember that lost time does not return.”