I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

It is never a river’s fault that one cannot swim.

I've always had a certain facility with words.

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.

A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.