“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”

“Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass it”

“Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives”

“Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses”

“Those who never have time do least”

“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”