“Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion”
“The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.”
“As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.”
“Lucrezia has never seen her own face, and cannot know its expressions--how, at that moment, her smile was an explosion.”
“It is easy to be moderate and cool. It is easy to be ignorant and passionate. But to be wise and yet extravagant, to measure all and yet venture all, this is not easy.”
“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.”