“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”

“I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.”

“The gentle maid, whose hapless tale,these melancholy pages speak;say, gracious lady, shall she failTo draw the tear a down from thy cheek?”

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”

“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”

“In science, mistakes always precede the truth.”